SPELL=xsm PKG=xsm VERSION=1.0.1 XORG_VER=X11R7.0 SOURCE=${PKG}-${XORG_VER}-${VERSION}.tar.bz2 SOURCE_URL[0]=http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/${XORG_VER}/src/app/${SOURCE} SOURCE_GPG="gurus.gpg:${SOURCE}.sig" SOURCE_DIRECTORY=${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/${PKG}-${XORG_VER}-${VERSION} WEB_SITE=http://xorg.freedesktop.org ENTERED=20051125 LICENSE[0]=XCL PATCHLEVEL=1 SHORT="X Session Manager" cat << EOF xsm is a session manager. A session is a group of applications, each of which has a particular state. xsm allows you to create arbitrary sessions - for example, you might have a "light" session, a "development" session, or an "xterminal" session. Each session can have its own set of applications. Within a session, you can perform a "checkpoint" to save application state, or a "shutdown" to save state and exit the session. When you log back in to the system, you can load a specific session, and you can delete sessions you no longer want to keep. Some session managers simply allow you to manually specify a list of applications to be started in a session. xsm is more powerful because it lets you run applications and have them automatically become part of the session. On a simple level, xsm is useful because it gives you this ability to easily define which applications are in a session. The true power of xsm, however, can be taken advantage of when more and more applications learn to save and restore their state. EOF